Yesterday I wrote:
I’m going to Weight Watchers this morning – for the community as much as anything else. I don’t know what their scale will say and I’ve stopped taking the card for them to write my weight on, so it really doesn’t matter. I’ve always dreamt of a scale-free WW meeting and I’ve kind of got it.
So I trotted down to the meeting and stood on the scale.
147 (with clothes, post coffee – that’s just fine)
I was yammering away as I stepped off and thought the weigher hadn’t seen the number. So I stepped back on.
146.5
Interesting. Do you see why I don’t really care what the WW scales say?
When I took my seat with some friends, they had both put on half a pound. Or had they? Maybe we should go back to weighing in whole pounds of balance scales? I wonder if those who weigh in kilos and half kilos are less prone to this craziness. I wish I had the answer to scale insanity. I think they should have a WW topic about The Big Picture. It’s really about what happens over a month – or a season – or a year that counts.
When you’re 10 lbs lighter than you were 2 months ago, that’s weight loss.
When you’re .5 lighter than you were last week, maybe it’s a loss and maybe it isn’t.
Here’s the big issue. We get so emotionally wrapped up in what that scale says that we let it rule the following week. I’m pretty sure the women who had small gains are too sane to let half a pound influence their eating. But then people used to think I was sane too – but I really really wasn’t. Half a pound on could lead to another pound on which would inevitably lead to quitting WW and putting on 20 pounds.
So I’m going to keep up the daily weighing. I knew it could take away the power of my home scale but I am absolutely over the moon that it has snuffed out the power of the WW scale too.
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